Hey all,
I took a gamble on a “for parts” 5800x3d that had a few bent pins. I currently have a 5600x with an ASUS TUF x570-Plus WiFi and thought this would be a nice upgrade.
The problem I’m seeing, is that the system won’t post with the 5800 and hangs with the orange/yellow DRAM LED on the motherboard.
I thought to update the BIOS with the old CPU, but I already had a version that would support the new one. After that, I tried swapping RAM modules and only using one, then the other. Eventually I updated the BIOS to the most recent version and resetting with the jumper, but it still won’t post.
Looking at the pin layout and considering the bent pins were all in one corner, I am wondering if the original owner tried to install this CPU rotated 90° and delivered some high power where it shouldn’t’ve gone.
Any fun ideas, or did I just pay for a nice learning experience?
fixing pins is not easy (as you may well know). Installing the CPU wrong AND powering it up in that way seems almost impossible, so unless you know for sure that’s what happened, I would still put my money on: “getting the pins back to perfection should make it post” maybe one of the pins that you bent back has a bad contact point with the cpu and needs to be repinned. I check out Northrigde repair videoblog sometimes, and repinning looks really, pretty hardcore so, suit up if you’re going this route.
Also, to get some perspective:
Did any one of us here ever kill a CPU? I mean bent pins can happen to any nervous hardware installer, but maybe by pushing it beyond it’s limits with overclocking? I have had a bit of fun with CPU’s but none of them died on me.